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Dario Floreano
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Journal Articles
Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms, accepted in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2012.
Beyond Graphs: A New Synthesis, accepted in Journal of Computational Science, 2011.
Genetic representation and evolvability of modular neural controllers , accepted in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 5, num. 3, p. 10-19, 2010.
Miniature curved artificial compound eyes, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 110, num. 23, p. 9332-9337, 2013.
Evolving team compositions by agent swapping, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 17, num. 2, p. 282-298, 2013.
Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila, in Plos One, vol. 7, num. 11, p. e48381, 2012.
Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Bme, vol. 59, num. 7, p. 2011 - 2018, 2012.
An Active Uprighting Mechanism for Flying Robots, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, num. 5, p. 1152 - 1157, 2012.
Historical contingency affects signaling strategies and competitive abilities in evolving populations of simulated robots, in PNAS, vol. 109, num. 3, p. 864-868, 2012.
Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor, in The American Naturalist, vol. 179, num. 3, p. 391-400, 2012.
An Active Connection Mechanism for Soft Modular Robots, in Advanced Robotics, vol. 26, num. 7, p. 785-798, 2012.
Vision Tape - a flexible compound vision sensor for motion detection and proximity estimation, in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 12, num. 5, p. 1131-1139, 2012.
3-D Relative Positioning Sensor for Indoor Flying Robots, in Autonomous Robots, 2012.
Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices, in Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, p. 920-926, 2011.
GeneNetWeaver: In silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods, in Bioinformatics, vol. 27, num. 16, p. 2263-2270, 2011.
A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism, in PLOS Biology, vol. 9, num. 5, p. e1000615, 2011.
Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems, in Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 28, num. 3, p. 405-423, 2011.
Relatedness influences signal reliability in evolving robots, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 278, p. 378-383, 2011.
Adaptive Sleep-Wake Discrimination for Wearable Devices, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 58, num. 4, p. 920-926, 2010.
Insect Vision: A Few Tricks to Regulate Flight Altitude, in Current Biology, vol. 20, num. 19, p. R847-R849, 2010.
Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power, in International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, vol. 2, num. 2, p. 107-117, 2010.
Revealing strengths and weaknesses of methods for gene network inference, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 107, num. 14, p. 6286–6291, 2010.
A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles, in Journal of Micro-Nano Mechatronics, vol. 5, num. 3-4, p. 77-91, 2010.
Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection, in PLOS Biology, vol. 8, num. 1, p. e100029, 2010.
Energy-Efficient Indoor Search by Swarms of Simulated Flying Robots Without Global Information, in Swarm Intelligence, vol. 4, num. 2, p. 117-144, 2010.
Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 64, p. 675-684, 2010.
Steerable Miniature Jumping Robot, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 28, num. 3, p. 295-306, 2010.
The Evolution of Information Suppression in Communicating Robots with Conflicting Interests, in PNAS, vol. 106, num. 37, p. 15786-15790, 2009.
Vision-based control of near-obstacle flight, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 27, num. 3, p. 201-219, 2009.
Evolutionary Selection of Features for Neural Sleep/Wake Discrimination, in Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, vol. 2009, p. 1-10, 2009.
Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods, in Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 16, num. 2, p. 229-239, 2009.
Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1158, p. 102-113, Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences, 2009.
Sleep and Wake Classification With ECG and Respiratory Effort Signals, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, p. 71-78, 2009.
Evolved swarming without positioning information: an application in aerial communication relay, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 26, num. 1, p. 21-32, 2009.
Replaying the Evolutionary Tape: Biomimetic Reverse Engineering of Gene Networks, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1158, p. 234-245, Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences, 2009.
Genetic Team Composition and Level of Selection in the Evolution of Cooperation, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, num. 3, p. 648-660, 2009.
Ant-based Swarming with Positionless Micro Air Vehicles for Communication Relay, in Swarm Intelligence, vol. 2, num. 2-4, p. 167-188, 2008.
The Age of Analog Networks, in AI Magazine, vol. 29, num. 3, p. 63--76, 2008.
Neuroevolution: from architectures to learning, in Evolutionary Intelligence, vol. 1, num. 1, p. 47-62, 2008.
Enactive Robot Vision, in Adaptive Behavior, vol. 16, num. 2-3, p. 122-128, 2008.
Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots, in Current Biology, vol. 17, p. 514-519, 2007.
Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 11, num. 5, p. 596--607, 2007.
A 10-gram Vision-based Flying Robot, in Advanced Robotics, vol. 21, num. 14, p. 1671-1684, 2007.
Evolutionary morphogenesis for multi-cellular systems, in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol. 8, num. 1, p. 61-96, 2007.
Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 21, num. 3, p. 243-254, 2006.
Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 273, p. 1815-23, 2006.
Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 22, num. 1, p. 137-146, 2006.
Evolution of Spiking Neural Circuits in Autonomous Mobile Robots, in International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, num. 9, p. 1005-1024, 2006.
The Contribution of Active Body Movement to Visual Development in Evolutionary Robots, in Neural Networks, vol. 18, num. 5/6, p. 656--665, 2005.
From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Neurons, in Artificial Life, vol. 11, num. 1-2, p. 121-138, 2005.
The cooperation of swarm-bots: physical interactions in collective robotics, in Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 12, num. 2, p. 21-28, 2005.
Active Vision and Receptive Field Development in Evolutionary Robots, in Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, num. 4, p. 527--544, 2005.
SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept, in Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 193-221, 2004.
Machine Self-Evolution, in YLEM journal, vol. 24, num. 12, p. 4-10, 2004.
Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-bot, in Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, vol. 17, num. 2-3, p. 223-245, 2004.
Coevolution of active vision and feature selection, in Biological Cybernetics, vol. 90, num. 3, p. 218--228, 2004.
Measures of Diversity for Populations and Distances Between Individuals with Highly Reorganizable Genomes, in Evolutionary Computation, vol. 12, num. 4, p. 495--515, 2004.
Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize, in Ercim News, num. 53, p. 25-26, 2003.
Neural Synthesis of Artificial Organisms through Evolution, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 6, num. 1, p. 31-37, 2002.
Evolution of Adaptive Synapses: Robots with Fast Adaptive Behavior in New Environments, in Evolutionary Computation, vol. 9, num. 4, p. 495-524, 2001.
Transitive choices by a simple, fully connected, backpropagation neural network: implications for the comparative study of transitive inference, in Animal Cognition, vol. 4, p. 61-68, 2001.
Neural Morphogenesis, Synaptic Plasticity, and Evolution, in Theory in Biosciences, vol. 120, num. 3-4, p. 225-240, 2001.
Evolution of Plastic Control Networks, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 11, num. 3, p. 311-317, 2001.
Evolutionary Robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness, in Neural Networks, vol. 13, num. 4-5, p. 431-443, 2000.
Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Software: An Application to Autonomous Robots, in 3D The Journal of Three dimensional images (in japanese), vol. 14, num. 4, p. 64-69, 2000.
Evolutionary robotics: developing robots through artificial evolution, in ERCIM News, vol. 42, p. 12-13, 2000.
Learning of Variable-Resolution Cognitive maps for Autonomous Indoor Navigation, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 15, num. 6, p. 990-1000, 1999.
Learning and Evolution, in Autonomous Robots, vol. 7, num. 1, p. 89-113, 1999.
Evolution, Modularity, and Emergence in Autonomous Robots, 1998.
Co-evolving predator and prey robots: Do 'arm races' arise in artificial evolution?, in Artificial Life, vol. 4, num. 4, p. 311-335, 1998.
Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots, in Neural Networks, vol. 11, num. 7-8, p. 1461-1478, 1998.
Incremental Robot Shaping, in Connection Science, vol. 10, p. 341-360, 1998.
Contextually Guided Unsupervised Learning Using Local Multivariate Binary Processors, in Neural Networks, vol. 11, num. 1, p. 117-140, 1998.
Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B : Cybernetics, vol. 26, num. 3, p. 396-407, 1996.
Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots, in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 16, num. 2-4, p. 183-195, 1995.
A computational theory of learning visual features via contextual guidance, in Perception, vol. 24S, p. 22, 1995.
Eye tracking with a recurrent neural network, in Cognitive Systems, vol. 3, p. 331-349, 1993.
Conference Papers
. HYPER-FLEXIBLE 1-D SHAPE SENSOR. The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
. Indoor Navigation with a Swarm of Flying Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2012.
. Contactless deflection sensing of concave and convex shapes assisted by soft mirrors. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012.
. The EPFL jumpglider: A hybrid jumping and gliding robot with rigid or folding wings. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Phuket, Thailand, 2011.
. The Accuracy of Automatic Photogrammetric Techniques on Ultra-light UAV Imagery. UAV-g 2011 - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics, Zürich, CH, 2011.
. Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment. 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems., EPFL, Lasuaance, Switzerland, 2010.
. Beat-based synchronization and steering for groups of fixed-wing flying robots. International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010.
. Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, 2013.
. A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive. ICRA 13, Karlsruhe, 2013.
. Limitations of response thresholds models of division of labor. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 2012.
. Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection. Artificial Life 13, the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 2012.
. Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012.
. Implementation of a Wireless Mesh Network of Ultra Light MAVs with Dynamic Routing. IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, 3rd International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Networking & Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles 2012, Anaheim, California, USA, 2012.
. The AirBurr: A Flying Robot That Can Exploit Collisions. International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME), 2012 ICME, Kobe, Japan, 2012.
. Automatically calibrating the viewing direction of optic-flow sensors. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, St-Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2012.
. myCopter – Enabling Technologies for Personal Aerial Transportation Systems. 3rd International HELI World Conference, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2011.
. MYCOPTER: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONAL AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS – AN EARLY PROGRESS REPORT. 37th European Rotorcraft Forum, Vergiate/Gallarate, Italy, 2011.
. Robot Companions for Citizens. FET'11, Budapest, Procedia Computer Science, 2011.
. CURVACE - CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes. 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (FET 11), Budapest, Hungary, Procedia Computer Science, 2011.
. Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2011), San Francisco, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011.
. Aerial Locomotion in Cluttered Environments. 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, 2011.
. Contactless deflection sensor for soft robots. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011.
. myCopter: Enabling Technologies for Personal Air Transport Systems . RAeS Rotorcraft Conference: The Future Rotorcraft – Enabling Capability Through the Application of Technology, London, UK, 2011.
Fields of Expertise
- Bio-inspired Robotics
- Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Biology